Far Flung Medieval News
From all points on the globe this week, the medieval news ticker has been humming with word of museum openings, stage musicals and an artist star profile centuries in the making....
Not the sublime to the ridiculous, - but the ridiculous to the ridiculous - is happening in Chicago with the opening of Spamalot, (the stage musical billing itself as "ripped off from the motion picture 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail,'") There's lots of good early buzz as it makes it way to New York, with actor Tim Curry leading the way as King Arthur. Read the report and watch the video here.
Largest exhibit on European Jewish medieval life opens ... reports the Jerusalem Post that surveys the opening of a rare exhibition of art and artifacts in Speyer, Germany including the Erfurt Treasure, excavated only a few years ago in Germany, which includes 3,000 coins from the 13th and 14th centuries. Check out more here.....and here
Meanwhile, in The Guardian, Jonathan Jones reports news of sorts - with an original take on the old chestnut that medieval artists were, by and large, anonymous tradesmen toiling in the service of God. Yet two centuries before Michelangelo, the artist Giotto was famous merely for being, well, famous. Read all about it in A Star is Born...
Not the sublime to the ridiculous, - but the ridiculous to the ridiculous - is happening in Chicago with the opening of Spamalot, (the stage musical billing itself as "ripped off from the motion picture 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail,'") There's lots of good early buzz as it makes it way to New York, with actor Tim Curry leading the way as King Arthur. Read the report and watch the video here.
Largest exhibit on European Jewish medieval life opens ... reports the Jerusalem Post that surveys the opening of a rare exhibition of art and artifacts in Speyer, Germany including the Erfurt Treasure, excavated only a few years ago in Germany, which includes 3,000 coins from the 13th and 14th centuries. Check out more here.....and here
Meanwhile, in The Guardian, Jonathan Jones reports news of sorts - with an original take on the old chestnut that medieval artists were, by and large, anonymous tradesmen toiling in the service of God. Yet two centuries before Michelangelo, the artist Giotto was famous merely for being, well, famous. Read all about it in A Star is Born...
